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Scientists at the University of Utah have discovered nanoscale electric motors in the human inner ear. Originally used, 400 million years ago, for balance and equilibrium, they evolved over time to amplify sounds to enable communication. The tiny hair-like liquid crystal membrane tubes are powered by potassium rather than electric current. The discovery of these flexo-electric motors opens up new field of further human motor research. More>
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